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Tommy Valdez
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · Jun 1
So today @safety.bsky.app gave Saeed a lifetime ban despite going out of his way to prove his existence. I don't know what problem @jay.bsky.team has with Arabs, but if you find @bsky.app's draconian and racist targeting bad, donate and email [email protected].
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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 8h
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 2h
Context since it doesn’t look like @americanprogress.bsky.social responded to @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social in the two weeks since they reached out.
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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · 12d
DAWN demands answers from @americanprogress.bsky.social about why they appointed former Secretary of State Antony Blinken to their Board despite his documented role in aiding and abetting Israeli crimes in Gaza: dawnmena.org/dawn-calls-o...
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 2h
Meanwhile the Center for “American” “Progress” @americanprogress.bsky.social is rewarding this ghoul with a seat on their board.
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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · 12d
DAWN demands answers from @americanprogress.bsky.social about why they appointed former Secretary of State Antony Blinken to their Board despite his documented role in aiding and abetting Israeli crimes in Gaza: dawnmena.org/dawn-calls-o...
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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · 12d
We're asking CAP for transparency: What due diligence was done? What selection criteria were used? How can an organization claiming to "promote peace" appoint someone who enabled genocide?
DAWN Calls on Center for American Progress to Reconsider Antony Blinken’s Board Appointment
DAWN has sent a letter to the Board of Directors of the Center for American Progress (CAP), raising serious concerns over the appointment of former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to its board....
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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · 12d
DAWN demands answers from @americanprogress.bsky.social about why they appointed former Secretary of State Antony Blinken to their Board despite his documented role in aiding and abetting Israeli crimes in Gaza: dawnmena.org/dawn-calls-o...
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Shani 🫧 @blerdmommy.blacksky.app · 3h
That’s a lot of words…hope Blinken is haunted for the rest of his life.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3h
Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.
Blinken: (2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue. (3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.
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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 3h
Did he just say "Sadly we had to destroy all the civilians to get to the military" with his whole chest?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3h
Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.
Blinken: (2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue. (3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 4h
woke up from a nap in a frenzy
a few good men but make it a few small beers
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🐦‍⬛🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸Dan won't shut up about trans rights & Palestine @verboseminimalist.gay · 3h
The party of pedophiles and slumlords - now with more seal clubbing!
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4h
Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...
Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 3h
I remember when people were debating if Israel would actually strike a single hospital while they were leveling an entire civilization
Complete and total destruction of Jabalia camp in Gaza
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 3h
Why tf would you allow this man who lied to Congress have a seat on your board?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3h
Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.
Blinken: (2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue. (3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 3h
Don’t forget, @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social, founded by Jamal Khashoggi, contacted @americanprogress.bsky.social to demand that they not seat Antony Blinken to their board of directors.

Blinken lied to congress about Israel’s targeting of children in Gaza. He should be shunned forever.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3h
Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.
Blinken: (2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue. (3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3h
Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.
Blinken: (2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue. (3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 3h
These are state police, under @jbpritzker.bsky.social’s control. The great khan.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h
Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.
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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 7h
No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.
 
Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 7h
Afghanistan has launched an attack on Pakistan from 7 different border locations, the Afghan Ministry of Defense says.-Al Jazeera
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 8h
You don’t, in fact, have to white knight for the CEO of Bluesky after she’s spent two years banning Palestinians and permabanned a prominent #Blacksky figure.
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noWay @noway.gabb.fr · 8h
She has nothing to do with it, it is an independent platform, just using the same protocol
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 21h
CNN reports Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas. The eminent pediatrician was detained in Dec. during Israel’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, after he refused to abandon patients under siege.

Continued below ⬇️
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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 21h
the freaking Portland protest frog is warming up in the pen
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victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 21h
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 21h
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d
Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”
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Tommy Valdez @thomasav.bsky.social · 22h
This boss battle song from Hades II has been stuck in my head for days.
Hades II - I Am Gonna Claw (Out Your Eyes then Drown You to Death)
YouTube video by Supergiant Games
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 1d
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Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 23h
New from me: www.stephensemler.com/p/us-has-spe...
US has spent at least $38 billion on Israel since October 2023
Polygraph | Newsletter n°317 | 10 Oct 2025
www.stephensemler.com
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